2021 TREND STUDY DIGITAL ANALYTICS & MARKETING ACTIVATION Trakken GmbH Zirkusweg 1 20359 Hamburg Germany
[email protected] www.trkkn.com www.analytics-trends.com Contents 1 Preface 3 2 Analysis approach 4 3 Overview of results & respondents‘ self-assessment 36 4 Results in detail 4.1 First party data collection 11 4.2 Reporting & steering 17 4.3 Data storage 20 4.4 Data enrichment 22 4.5 Activation 25 4.6 Outlook 2021 28 2 3 1 - PREFACE MOIN For the sixth time now, we are publishing the trend study, in which we analyze the current and now established to- pics of digital analytics. For the past four years, we have been analyzing the trends in conversion optimization as well. And because we don‘t stagnate, we have expanded the concept again this year and are now looking at the entire field of digital analytics and marketing activation. This study is intended to identify industry trends, which is why we consider it important to ask the same ques- tions about digital analytics and conversion optimization on an annual basis. In addition, we also aim to reflect the changes in our fast-moving industry and to integrate as comprehensively as possible all related areas that are clo- sely connected with digital analytics and conversion op- timization. The result, a completely new structure of the study with a handful of new questions, while retaining the previous core questions. The chapters now cover all rele- vant areas from data collection, monitoring, data storage and enrichment to activation. In addition to the answers to previous and new questions, which we always present in year-on-year comparisons where possible, we surveyed self-assessments in the respective areas.